{"id":1420,"date":"2012-02-03T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2012-02-03T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T09:00:00","slug":"distracting-attention-from-colorful-cowboy-boots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1420","title":{"rendered":"Distracting Attention From Colorful Cowboy Boots"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fridays are known where I work as “casual Friday.” Most guys wear jeans, polo shirts, and sneakers. I take advantage of the unwritten rule that it is okay to wear jeans to work on Fridays, but along with the jeans, I decided to wear my Lucchese Classic “blue jeans” cowboy boots<\/a> to work. I work in a professional office. Most other men wear drab, dull, dress shoes on most days, and sneakers on Fridays. Not me–always booted.<\/p>\n

These boots, though, are noticeable because of their predominant blue color, with white inlays and black overlays. Not that I would care if anyone said anything, but I conducted an experiment.
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I am known not to wear a necktie, except on rare occasions when I have a special meeting. But the day on which I wore those blue\/white\/black cowboy boots, I also wore a dress shirt and a blue leather tie with a pair of dark black jeans.<\/p>\n

Yep, as I thought, most people noticed the tie and said something about it. Only one person — a woman — said, “those are snazzy-looking boots!” The men either noticed the boots and did not say anything, or were more focused on the tie business and did not say anything about the boots. I took a lot of good-natured ribbing about wearing a tie on “casual Friday.” Remarks like, “are you briefing [the big cheese]?” or “important lunch date?” or “presenting again?” were more common. And the tie being made of leather and not silk? No one said a thing.<\/p>\n

Moral of the story: if you are concerned about what people may say about a pair of boots you may wear, then throw them off from looking down to looking up — wear a tie. Scare them (LOL! — that’s true in my case!)<\/p>\n

Life is short: wear boots to work with dress clothes.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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